Time Feeds: Villager
Time Feeds: Villager changes how villagers age, feed and trade, adding a hunger cycle, configurable lifespans and a set of behavior modes for each villager.
What it does
Villagers in this mod can grow old and die, and they have to eat to avoid it. Ten minutes of real time after reaching adulthood, a villager enters a hungry state and actively searches for food. A hungry villager cannot be traded with, and players cannot trade with a villager that has entered that state. Villagers take food directly from their hands, which replaces the original breeding mechanism for food.
Players can set a villager to a work mode, a stay mode or a mode that keeps it at its spot, so it never tries to work or go to meetings. Crouching and right-clicking a villager opens an extra inventory of eight slots, where items can be placed and taken. A hungry villager first tries to consume items from that inventory before it looks elsewhere. The mod also offers more villager skins, set through a UI and added by resource packs. Its requirement list names the skin resource pack as recommended, and the default skin stays the vanilla one. The mod is published for Forge only, on 1.20 and 1.20.1, with 1.0.1 for 1.20.1 as the latest file.
Key features
Hunger cycle
Villagers enter a hungry state ten minutes after becoming adults and search for food, and that state can be set in the config.
Lifespan limit
Adult villagers die two hours of real time after growing up, unless a golden apple is given to them first.
Behavior modes
Players switch a villager between work, stay and other modes, and a staying villager never goes to work or meetings.
Extra inventory
Crouching and right-clicking a villager opens an eight-slot inventory that hungry villagers draw food from first.
Villager skins
Additional skins are chosen in a UI and loaded from resource packs, and the default skin is the vanilla one.
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
How it compares
Redstoneer Villager is a Forge mod for 1.20.1 that is client and server and licensed under the Apache License 2.0, but it is not open source. Villager Inspector covers 1.20.1 – 1.20.6 on the same environment and is open source under the Apache License 2.0, so it has a wider version range than this mod. Villager Trade Edit is also Forge-only for 1.20.1 and client and server, under the MIT License, and it is not open source.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time Feeds: Villager | Forge | 1.20 – 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2025-06-26 |
| Redstoneer Villager | Forge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2024-04-27 |
| Villager Inspector | Forge | 1.20.1 – 1.20.6 | Client and server | 2025-12-08 |
| Villager Trade Edit | Forge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2026-05-24 |
Questions
Does Time Feeds: Villager need to be installed on the server?
Which Minecraft versions does Time Feeds: Villager support?
In the catalog
Time Feeds: Villager is one of 19,031 Adventure mods on ModsFinder, and one of 10,478 Adventure mods for Forge. 34,764 mods support Minecraft 1.20.1.
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What the author says
This mod adds more highly-configurable behaviors to villagers. Villagers can getting old and finally die for aging, which can be avoided by feeding them golden apples (configurable). And also villagers can feel hungry and searching for foods in their hunger. Villagers will die 2 hours (in real time) after they become…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/time-feeds-villager
- Owner
- Viola-Siemens
- Published
- 2025-06-23
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2025-06-26
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15